![]() ![]() To use the One Ring to its full extent, the bearer needs to be strong, and to train its will to the domination of others. As the Ruling Ring, the One enables a sufficiently powerful bearer to perceive what is done by means of the lesser rings, and to govern the thoughts of their bearers. Gandalf explains that a Ring of Power is self-serving and can "look after itself": the One Ring in particular, can "slip off treacherously" to return to its master Sauron, betraying its bearer when an opportunity arrives. The rings do all have various unique properties, and I'll pull some descriptions from Wikipedia for this:Įach Ring enhances the "natural power" of its possessor, thus approaching its "magical aspect", which can be "easily corruptible to evil and lust of domination". Eventually Annatar's true identity as Sauron is revealed. Sauron, in secret, forges the One Ring (from the Lord of the Rings books and films) tying them all to it so he can control them. Celebrimbor, an elf and a character you'll meet in the show, forges the 3 Elven rings of power. In this form he teaches/manipulates the dwarves how to forge rings of power. He does manage to fool most people with this disguise, but there are some who are suspicious of him (Gil Galad and Elrond being two). Sauron returns to Middle Earth, after the Defeat of his master Morgoth in the FIrst Age, disguised as a person named Annatar. They were favored by the gods due to their involvement in Morgoth's defeat in the First Age. They are seafaring, advanced, and have extended lives. The Numenorians will be shown in the Rings of Power show, so you'll get to know them then, but in brief they are a kingdom of humans from the island of Numenoria. Aragorn is a descendent of Isildur and Elendil, and thus has Numenorian blood, so he lives quite a bit longer than non-Numenorian men (such as the men of Rohan). Time will tell if that was a good decision, but so far the impressions have been good.Īragorn is in his late 80s by the war of the ring in Lord of the Rings, so he's not even quite as old as Bilbo for reference (who is 111 at the start of Fellowship). ![]() So in order to include them they needed to speed things up a bit. Isildur and Elendil are Numenorian, so they live for several hundred years (Elendil is killed by Sauron, and Isildur is killed for the Ring years later) but are not immortal. And there is about 2,000 years of history in the Second Age before even that.īut the show wants to include characters like Isildur and his father, Elendil, so they had to compress the timeline. So Sauron's fall at the battle of the last alliance (again, the battle at the beginning of the Fellowship film) happens around 3,000 years before the start of Frodo's story in Fellowship of the Ring. I found it quite nicely charming how somewhat inept and powerless Gandalf is in the first film, and is simply a wizard trying to do the best he can do.Īlso, I know that Frodo is meant to be a sort of everyperson and an unlikely hero, but by God does Elijah Wood play him as the most unimpressive sigh of a character. On the whole, while I'm not particularly enamored by any of the films, Fellowship probably is the best, and the one I'd most likely rewatch (even if only the theatrical edition). I guess it's an effect of a time when perhaps they couldn't do entirely CG scenes (and so had to composite CG elements on real backgrounds, and vice versa), but there were some moments which really stood out - Frodo running into the volcano in the last film had me and my partner laughing, for instance, but that may be explained by it not being a scene from the original cut. Having just finished watching the Extended Editions of the trilogy (probably for the first time since the films were released), I found it really easy to get distracted by how poorly the effects have aged over the past 20 years. ![]()
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